(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
Ecuador is facing a monkeypox outbreak with 16 cases confirmed,
Trend reports
citing Xinhua .
'We have an outbreak in Ecuador due to the unusual increase in
cases of a pathology that did not exist and we continue to make
epidemiological fences so that the number of cases would stop
increasing,' said Francisco Perez, undersecretary of national
health surveillance of the Ecuadoran Health Ministry at a virtual
press conference.
Cases of monkeypox have been detected so far in seven of the 24
Ecuadorian provinces, with the highest incidence found in Guayas,
Los Rios and El Oro in the coastal region.
Of the six new confirmed cases, two were found in children with
one being a 9-year-old who came from abroad and developed the
infection in Ecuador, said the Ecuadoran health official.
'This shows that the disease can occur at any age,' Perez said,
noting that in Ecuador the infections were initially found mostly
in men aged 20-40.
Among the 16 confirmed cases, a patient died on Monday due to a
'pre-existing pathology.'
According to the Ecuadoran official, the most common symptom is
the appearance of pus-filled pimple-like vesicles on the body
mainly in the genital area, palms of the hands and soles of the
feet.
Meanwhile, 35 people are currently under surveillance for the
infection.
Perez called for maintaining biosecurity measures and
recommended the use of mask.
The first case of this zoonotic disease was confirmed in Ecuador
on July 6 in a 30-year-old man in the city of Guayaquil, capital of
the southwestern province of Guayas.
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